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The documentary will be aired on UK’s Channel 4 in November 2013.
The special 12-minute cut will also be aired in the United States and through CNN and ABC broadcasting networks and in Australia via the multilingual broadcaster – SBS.
The global broadcast coincides with the forthcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Colombo that has been highly criticized in the face of Sri Lanka’s ever-increasing human rights abuse cases.
The cut is based on a two hour documentary feature produced and directed by Leena Manimekalai that follows seven characters, covering a gamut of provinces and ethnicities, and the tragic unexplained disappearances of their loved ones in post-war Sri Lanka. The characters will also give audiences a stark glimpse at the characters’ resilience to find the disappeared as part of their continued fight for justice.
“White Van Stories tracks Sri Lanka’s long history of unexplained disappearances in the 1980s during the armed revolt of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna(JVP), and later as the civil war intensified in the 1990s up to recent years,” said Leena Manimekalai. “The lives of the families of the disappeared across Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim ethnicities are portrayed,” she added.
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